Opens your YouTube paid memberships page. Sign in required.
Navigate to youtube.com/paid_memberships or open YouTube → tap your profile → Purchases and memberships. Sign in if prompted.
Find your YouTube Premium subscription and click Manage membership.
Click Deactivate or Cancel membership. YouTube may offer you a pause option or discounted rate — decline if you want to fully cancel.
Click Continue to cancel on the final confirmation screen. Your Premium benefits remain until the end of your current billing period.
Apple-billed subscriptions cost more ($16.99/mo vs $13.99/mo direct). Canceling here stops the Apple billing.
If you mainly want music streaming, Spotify is the dedicated option.
Browser extensions like uBlock Origin block YouTube ads (desktop only).
YouTube Music Premium without ad-free YouTube videos.
Your Premium benefits continue until the end of your billing cycle. After that, you'll see ads on YouTube, lose YouTube Music Premium, lose offline downloads, and lose background play on mobile.
Yes. YouTube Music Premium is included with YouTube Premium. Canceling Premium cancels both. You can subscribe to YouTube Music separately for $10.99/mo if you only want the music service.
Yes. YouTube offers the option to pause your membership for 1-6 months. You won't be charged during the pause period, but you also won't have Premium benefits. Your membership resumes automatically after the pause.
No. Your channel subscriptions, playlists, liked videos, and watch history remain. These are tied to your Google account, not your Premium subscription.
At $13.99/mo, YouTube Premium removes all ads, includes YouTube Music, allows offline downloads, and enables background play. If you watch YouTube daily, the ad-free experience alone is significant. If you rarely watch, the free tier with occasional ads may be sufficient.
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